Kenyan cross-border payments startup GTXN has been acquired by UK-based digital asset platform Luno. Founded in 2022, GTXN provides collection and payout infrastructure across corridors linking ...

Washington-based impact incubator Halcyon has opened applications for its Africa Innovation in Agriculture and Food Security Programme, which will offer selected early-stage startups an equity-free ...

South Africa’s largest accommodation bookings app LekkeSlaap has been acquired by a consortium of investors.

Kenyan digital bank Cloud9, which enables cross-border payments and borderless banking for African consumers and businesses, has secured an undisclosed investment from crypto and fintech accelerator ...

Nigerian fintech startup Bujeti has made Brain, an agentic AI platform for finance teams, publicly available following a two-week private beta.

Egyptian startup Paymob, the leading payments infrastructure service provider in the MENA region, has secured US$35 million in a pre-Series C funding round to support its ongoing expansion across the ...

Nigerian game development studio Xelabyte Studios has launched MerjUp, a mobile arcade puzzle game that combines merge mechanics with physics-based, skill-driven gameplay.

African technologists and entrepreneurs are applying blockchain in innovative ways, creating a new financial infrastructure for the continent with wide-ranging benefits, including for the humanitarian ...

Six African startups have been selected as winners of the 2026 FINCA Ventures Prize Competition, receiving a combined US$400,000 in catalytic funding to accelerate their impact in key resilience ...

Cameroonian startup lensX has launched an Alibaba-style online marketplace connecting businesses, vendors and customers across Africa, with augmented reality (AR) shopping on its longer-term roadmap.

Egyptian startup SAYR has launched a public transport app built for people who don't already know how a city's transit system works, and picked up more than 2,100 downloads in its first three weeks.

Fifty-eight African tech startups raised just shy of US$583 million in funding in the third quarter of 2026, making it the most successful quarter of the year so far and boosting the chance that ...